5 reasons Trump might fall in autumn

[no_hypocrisy]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/is-donald-trump-surge-real-228228

The GOP nominee prefers his KFC by the bucket, devours the fries before the Big Mac, and only eats greens out of taco bowls perched atop white linen napkins – but make no mistake, these are Donald Trump’s salad days.

Counted down in the dark days after his gloomy Cleveland convention, with polls showing him behind by double digits, Trump has mounted what, to the unschooled political observer, appears to be a remarkable political comeback. He’s pulled even with Clinton among likely voters in the latest New York Times/CBS national poll – a 42 to 42 percent deadlock that has been reflected in a raft of tightening battleground state polls. And he’s surged to an 8-point lead in Iowa, reflecting his improvement in critical battleground states.

Still, the story of the last three weeks is less about a Trump comeback than a Hillary Clinton fallback, and the same head-scratching dynamic that defined the Republican primaries – Trump’s Teflon, his opponent (in this case Hillary) is Velcro – took root in an August.

And there are warning signs aplenty for a candidate whose trajectory has improved only by his capacity to drag his opponent down to his own level of septic-tank unpopularity. And Trump’s early-fall “surge” could be quickly reversed as he descends ever deeper into the darkening swamp of national self-hatred this rotten, hope-free, soul-sucking 2016 campaign for president has turned out to be.

Here are five things Trump should worry about as he enjoys his resurgence.

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[SummerSnow]

1. He's deplorable so he will fail.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. US history doesn't support that contention.